SAM G. BRIDGES

BRIDGES

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

BRIDGES, SAM. G., Government contractor; came to Keokuk in the fall of 1858 ; engaged in the jewelry business here for a great many years; from 1868 to December, 1873, he was contractor for furnishing supplies to the United States Government in the West; in December, 1873, he received the contract from our Government to furnish headstones for the deceased Union soldiers from that time to November, 1877, he erected over 256,000 headstones; he is still engaged in soldiers' monumental work. Mr. Bridges is a native of Newton, Mass.; in 1853, he went to Boston, where he remained until he came to Keokuk.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879